Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-13
0CRiN RACE.
A Good Start Secured for
the Great Yacht Race.
The Remains of Henry
Ward Beecher Quietly
Buried.
Speaker Carlisle the Guest at
a Democratic Dinner
in Boston.
Opium Smuggling by wsy Of Detroit.
A PairOlmAR shot in BastOa-A
tempt to Finish the craiserS-
Arrested for Embez-
Element.
The Great ocean Vaehs Race.

The Great ocean Yacht Race.
NKw YORx, March 2-9 a. m.-The
transatlantic keel schooner yacht race
from Ogrs Head. New York hArboF, q
Roche's Point, Queenstown harboF, vii
be started. weather permitting. at
O'Clock today. Every stay, rops, halyard
line, brace. sheet, bolt and tackle on the
Dauntla@ we're carefully inspected for
the last time by Captain Samnels yss-
terday afternoon and Captain Crosby
did the same service aboard the O0r0.
perfect order and fully ready to enooun-
ter the gales which are expected and
perhaps hoped fer on the passage. The
time Of crossing the line OF each yacht
will be taken but IL will have no effect Ia
deciding the result az, after the signal
has been given. both boats will be con
sideFed as having started and the one
shat reaches ROche's Point first will be
the winner.
The race grew out Of discussion
among several yschtmen last fall re-
garding the relative merits of the
various American yachts IN heavy
weather. The Ooronet has two dis inct
advantages over the DAuntless. her
rival. She il larger and never. being
built AZ South Brooklyn in 1881. while
the Dauntiess was constructed twenty
one years ago ct Mystic Bridge, Conn.
The NaTroWs we're hlled With numer
Gus yachts aud other sea craft to Wit
meas the departure Of the racing Yankee
schoonere. The last signal vas given
from Fort Milton ct l:l0 O'Clock, and
within a few minutes the racers bad
crossed the imaginary line and started
on their way 10 Cork harbor, the Ooro
ret leading. The wiRd Was twenty-four
miles an heur and increasing.
SANDY Hook, March l2.-fh judges
boats lefs the yachts when north OF toe
light ship. At 2:30 the yachts are forR
ing ahead with a twenty-foar mile
north northwest breeze. The weather
clear and the sea has gone
down some. The CorOnet IL leading By
about quarter of a mile. A representa-
tive Of the Associated Press 10 aboard Of
zach yacht.
Quietly Taken 70 the Graveyard.
The remains Of ths late Henry Ward
Beecher were taken fFom Plymouth
,hurch at $50 this morning and con
veyed to Greenwood cemetery where
they we're deposited in large recsiving
vanlt where thev will remain until the
family select a lot for fual internent
All NIGHT long tbs church was guarded
by Plymouth Company g., and at
o'eleek this snorning the remains wer-
turned over TO the Plymouth OouTch
Committee who bad charge of the burial.
Only the family and close personal
friends Of the deceased went out 10 the
The funeral corteRs proceed
cd from the church to Greenwood Gem
stery by the shortest route.
Democratic Dinner in Boston.
RosroN, March 12.-The Bay State
Club, the NEST imp rtant Democratic
IN New England. enter
tanned a number Of distinguished gen
,lemen At their annual dinner at the
Revere House this afternoon. Chief
among the guests was Hon. John q
President Taylor presided az
the banquet. Among the guests were
J. @. Carlisle, w. w. Spurgeon, JEFF
Chandler. Stilson Hatehins. f. A. Ste
venson, Gen. j. NJ. Oarse and Gen. W
:. Roseorans. When the dinner was
over President TAYLOR raped to order
and in q brief speech introduced the
speaker, Hon. John q. Car
isle, whose chief virtue. he said. was
that be had been denounced by
Senator HoaF. Speaker Carlisle Was
greeted with general applause. After
bis thanks for his cordial r.
oeptiou, be said: "You must permit me
TO tender the sincere thanks Of the Ken
tucky Democrats. not only for what vou
have done in the past. but also for What
they know you intend 10 do in the fa
lure. You will not permit hasssohu-
aetts to remain always a Republican
Stats. The old preindices are passing
away. Massachusetts, is always moviHe
toward the Democratic position. With
the Bay State Club in froBt, and your
bretheFu everywhere hope TO zee
Ter on the right side Of the
line in 1898. We honestly be-
lieve that the principles and policies
by the organization TO which
We are attached will promote the inter
ests Of the Nation and the welfare OF
the people This IL the only true basis
for a political party, and aRY party or
Ranizsd upon q foundation less broad,
lees patriotic than this will soon deRen-
erats into q mere faction and cesss 10
command or deserve the respect Of in-
ielIieent citizens. Every attempt 10
make a single interest or a single class,
20 the exclusion Of all others, as basis
for political organizations will fail
81 al
tiOn Of your constitutions down to the
pressnt time. the point of iFreeoncilabls
differences between the Democratic
party and all its adyersaries have been
80 TO the nature spd extent Of Federal
power. The principal Of local SELF gov
ernment is the vital part Of the Den-
ooracy. An amendment to the ooDsti-
tuition declares that the powers are not
IN the Uoited States by the
nor prohibited bv Il 10 the
State. They are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people. No
power can be justly claimed unless
IL IL granted 10 express terms or
by necessary Implication. II 90 snoh
grant Of pswer can be found, and N it,
exercise by the State il not prohibited.
u belongs 20 the State and her people,
and thus while it belongs 90 the State
and her people. and thus while the doe
trine Of states rights ~ defended 10
thzt aEtisie, yet u dos not sanction se-
cessi0n or nullrfsstion, bot II iosgrueis
the several States and their people
that the boundaries Of all legislative,
executive and ia iieisl poWeF are not
90 the Unitsd States ~ fair
IA vaaaevsa a t,is a.,rtas FrSttfsrs az the con
stItufion. By this constitutional doc
tFine Of States rights the Democratic
party Of this cosntFy stands today ~ q
has always stood, ana az trust q vii.
stand forsver hereafter. Applauss.
TWruty- eve wears ago the tendeney Wa
20 carry this doctrine % dangerous
extreme, hot since that time lhe dan
g~r0as extreme kas been - itensd